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  2. Geometrical properties of polynomial roots - Wikipedia

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    A root is a simple root if = or a multiple root if . Simple roots are Lipschitz continuous with respect to coefficients but multiple roots are not. In other words, simple roots have bounded sensitivities but multiple roots are infinitely sensitive if the coefficients are perturbed arbitrarily.

  3. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of Newton's method. In numerical analysis, the Newton–Raphson method, also known simply as Newton's method, named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a root-finding algorithm which produces successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.

  4. Descartes' rule of signs - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, described by René Descartes in his La Géométrie, counts the roots of a polynomial by examining sign changes in its coefficients. The number of positive real roots is at most the number of sign changes in the sequence of polynomial's coefficients (omitting zero coefficients), and the difference ...

  5. Complex conjugate root theorem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the complex conjugate root theorem states that if P is a polynomial in one variable with real coefficients, and a + bi is a root of P with a and b real numbers, then its complex conjugate a − bi is also a root of P. [1]

  6. Characteristic equation (calculus) - Wikipedia

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    If the characteristic equation has a root r 1 that is repeated k times, then it is clear that y p (x) = c 1 e r 1 x is at least one solution. [1] However, this solution lacks linearly independent solutions from the other k − 1 roots. Since r 1 has multiplicity k, the differential equation can be factored into [1]

  7. Numerical analysis - Wikipedia

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    Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods that attempt to find approximate solutions of problems rather than the exact ones.

  8. Closed-form expression - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic formula =. is a closed form of the solutions to the general quadratic equation + + =. More generally, in the context of polynomial equations, a closed form of a solution is a solution in radicals; that is, a closed-form expression for which the allowed functions are only n th-roots and field operations (+,,, /).

  9. Root of unity - Wikipedia

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    The n th roots of unity form under multiplication a cyclic group of order n, and in fact these groups comprise all of the finite subgroups of the multiplicative group of the complex number field. A generator for this cyclic group is a primitive n th root of unity. The n th roots of unity form an irreducible representation of any cyclic group of ...